Nothing really that exciting here. You can find a Rose Incense fairly early on in the route, but other than that there's a few Trainers that you can fight along the way. None of them are overly difficult though, so don't worry.

Unless you want to get stuck over to the side or fight a Teacher and her three School Kids, you'll probably want to just stick to the eastern side of the route.

Assuming you've seen Eusine and Suicune at all of the locations that have been pointed out along the way (be sure to check by Cianwood City and Route 42 by Mt. Mortar if you haven't seen Suicune there yet), you should find Suicune waiting on the eastern part of the route for you. As soon as you approach it, Eusine will pop over and scare Suicune away, then chase after it. Lovely.

If you use Surf in the southwestern part of the route, you can find a little opening in land with a bush that can be Cut down. Cut it down and walk foward a bit and you'll find the Yellow Flute, which snaps a Pokemon out of confusion during a battle (you can use it in your Battle Items section, like with your X Attacks and stuff). Very handy, because you'll never have to worry about being confused again!

Also on the route, near the end of it you can find a house. Go inside of the house and talk to the Fisherman inside. Answer yes to his question and he'll give you the Super Rod. That's just Super! Now you can fish for the best Pokemon. Excellent!

You can head west onto Route 11, which will take you to the route that the Snorlax was blocking in Vermilion City. There isn't anything too useful there for you, but there are a bunch of Trainers.

Level 16 Hypnos are always fun to catch, just because of how low level they are. You can find TM86 (Grass Knot) in the northeast part of the route, which is a nice Grass-type TM to teach your Pokemon to take on heavier Pokemon. Better for competitive battling rather than in-game, but it will still have its merits in-game, too.

You can also enter part of Vermilion City and pick up a Sticky Orb by the water. You can also surf along the water and reach that beach you couldn't reach earlier near the dock. Use your Item Finder and you can find some Pearls and a Big Pearl down in the sand.

You'll be able to move that Snorlax before too long, don't worry. Make your way back to Route 12 and then head north into Lavender Town.

Lavender Town

Just like in the original Gold and Silver, there's now the Kanto Radio Tower instead of the old Pokemon Tower. Rather unfortunate for all of those old tombstones, but oh well, it seems Kanto would rather have some tunes instead of tombs.

However, you won't be able to hear any of the radio tunes until you've restored power to Kanto. The Power Plant is down, which is the source of a lot of power to Kanto (though it only seems to affect certain areas of importance, like the Magnet Train and the Radio Tower), so that means no tunes for you!

After you've restored power to the Power Plant, you can talk to one of the people in the Kanto Radio Tower and he'll give you the Expansion Card, which lets you tune into the Kanto Radio stations (like the Poke Flute station, which will wake up that sleeping Snorlax). But you can't really do that just yet.

Since there's really not all that much to do here, you have a choice of where you'd like to go: you can do some adventuring and go through the Rock Tunnel and Routes 9 and 10 to the north, or you can just Fly to Saffron City and walk north to Cerulean City, which is your eventual destination. Either way, you're going to need to go to the Power Plant.

Let's go through the Rock Tunnel, because that will get you to Cerulean City and the Power Plant anyway.

Make sure you bring a Pokemon with Flash! (Unless you want the extra challenge of wandering through the Rock Tunnel in the dark.)

Route 10

There's virtually nothing here for you except TM69 (Rock Polish) that's just past a boulder that can be pushed with Strength. The only other point of interest just yet is the entrance to the Rock Tunnel, which will lead you to the northern part of Route 10.

You'll need to use Flash if you want to see very much inside of the Rock Tunnel. It's a bit of a pain, but oh well, deal with it.

Near the beginning of the Rock Tunnel, starting from the Lavender side, you can find TM56 (Fling). Other that that, there's not really all that much of interest down here item-wise. No Trainers, either, to interfere with your way through.

You can find some neat Pokemon like Cubones, Marowaks, and Kangaskhans down here, though, which is pretty cool! You'll definitely want to try catch some of them. Other than that, just make your way through and you'll eventually reach the exit.

There's a Pokemon Center right outside of the Rock Tunnel on Route 10, but there's nothing you can do until you get onto Route 9 just to the north, so head north really quick.

There's quite a few Trainers on the Route, but they're all further west. You don't want to go too far right away and just want to go past the patch of grass and surf on the water to the far north, then surf east and south until you get back to Route 10.

The rest of Route 9 will be covered after the Power Plant, don't worry. (Not that there's really that much more to it.)

Sweet! You can run into Electabuzzes in that patch of grass there! And thankfully you can do so in either version now, which is nice.

But aside from that, there's really not much down here at this secluded area other than the Power Plant, so go on inside.

Power Plant

Nothing really that much to do inside of here, either. You'll want to talk to the guy way in the back standing on a platform thing over the generator. He'll say that the power isn't working because it's missing the Machine Part it needs to operate.

As you leave, one of the workers there will receive a call saying that they spotted the Machine Part over by Cerulean City. Hey, how convenient, that was where you were headed anyway! Right?

Leave and head back to Route 9, walking west and making your way back to Cerulean City.

Route 9 (2)

You'll probably need to hug the upper part of the route thanks to the hills all around on your way over to Cerulean City. There are several Trainers for you to fight, but nothing terribly interesting.

Along the way, you can find the rather useful TM91 (Flash Cannon) near a Hiker and a bush that needs to be cut down. Nifty! There's also a Light Clay just to the west of that which can be handy if you use a lot of Reflect or Light Screen.

Ah, good old Cerulean City. Not really a ton for you to do here right away, actually.

Go into the Gym. Don't worry about healing up your Pokemon, because the Gym Leader isn't even there right now anyway! As soon as you enter, a Rocket Grunt will bump into you and run out, saying that he's got the Machine Part or something like that.

That's just lovely. Go ahead and chase him north to Nugget Bridge. You'll see him squeezed between two people on the bridge. Talk to him there and he'll fight you, though he's pretty weak.

After beating him, he'll run off, saying that he hid the Machine Part in the Cerulean Gym instead. Lovely. Oh well, at least he's dealt with.

Since Misty isn't in the Gym, that means you need to go find her instead, and you'll find her on the cape on Route 25 further north and east a bit.

Nothing that interesting really on Route 24, actually. Just a patch of grass to the west of the bridge, actually, though you can Surf under the bridge and you can also Surf south to find Cerulean Cave, though the cave is blocked until after you've gotten your 16th Badge.

All of the familiar Trainers of Nugget Bridge may have fled Route 24's bridge, but they're now on your way in Route 25. You'll have to fight a whole bunch of them on your way east.

The Cool Trainer at the end will give you a Nugget before battling you, which is pretty sweet.

Keep moving just a bit past him and you should see Misty in the back of the route near the cottage with her boyfriend, but you scare him off when you show up. She's then a little upset, obviously, but agrees to go back to the Gym so you can battle her. Awesome!

Where's Misty? She's not here!

Have you been to the Power Plant on Route 10 and talked to the man in the center of it on the platform? Have you gone into the Cerulean Gym and followed the Rocket Grunt over to Nugget Bridge? Did you talk to that Rocket Grunt and battle him? Make sure you've done all of those things, otherwise Misty won't be there!

In addition to Misty, assuming you've been following Suicune and its persuer, Eusine, around Johto and Kanto, you'll find Suicune waiting there for you as well. When you go over to talk to it, you will finally be able to fight it and will battle it right then and there! So make sure you save your game before taking it on and have your Pokemon ready to take it on.

Legendary Pokemon

Suicune

LV. 40

Aurora Beam

Mist

Mirror Coat

Ice Fang

It doesn't really have that many threatening moves, unless your Pokemon are weak to Ice-type attacks, of course. Be careful when using Special-based attacks against it, as it may hit you with Mirror Coat for double the damage. Thankfully it doesn't have a lot of strength or any means of healing itself, so you should be able to weaken it and keep it weakened without too many problems.

The best way to catch it is to wait until it's dark out and then toss Dusk Balls at it, because they're just as effective as a Timer Ball would be. Putting it asleep or affecting it with paralysis help increase your chances of catching it as well as weakening it, but you should know that already, of course. Just buy about 40 Dusk Balls and you should catch it eventually if you keep chucking them at it.

Where's Suicune? Suicune's not here, either!

Suicune will only show up if you've encountered it in the previous locations around Johto and Kanto. If you haven't been to all of those locations, you're not going to see Suicune here. Thankfully, here's a list for you of the locations you'll need to run into Suicune at:

You first run into Suicune in the Burned Tower in Ecruteak City. You have to have seen Suicune here in order for Morty to go to the Gym, so this one is really guaranteed.

The second time you can find Suicune is just north of Cianwood City. You'll find Suicune on the northern part of the city. As you approach it, it will flee, but then Eusine will battle you.

The third place to encounter Suicune is on Route 42, just outside of Mt. Mortar. There's three Apricorns hiding behind a tree you can cut down — as well as an elusive Suicune! Chop down the bush and then Suicune will run off.

The fourth place you'll run into Suicune is in Vermilion City, right on the dock leading you to the S.S. Aqua. Be sure to go there and you'll run into it as well as Eusine.

The fifth and final location you'll need to find Suicune at is down on Route 14 in the southeastern part of Kanto, a bit east of Fuchsia City. You'll find it on the eastern part of the route as you head north onto Route 13.

You'll need to have seen Suicune in all of those locations before it will appear on Route 25 for you to fight.

Anyway, head back on to Cerulean City so you can go to the Cerulean Gym and take on Misty, not to mention get the Machine Part!

Cerulean Gym

The Gym's puzzle is very basic. You can either swim through the pools to try and dodge some of the Trainers on your way to Misty in the back, or you can just walk around to your right, fight some Trainers, and then walk over to Misty on her lifeguard chair thing.

It's really not very difficult at all. Extremely basic. Fight whatever Trainers you want and then go on over to take on Misty.

Misty doesn't have any prominent strategy, but all of her Pokemon do have her signature move, Water Pulse, which has a 30% chance of inflicting confusion. Hopefully you have your Yellow Flute that you got on Route 12 handy to remedy that! Otherwise, just switch out as soon as you get affected to avoid complications.

Her first two Pokemon shouldn't be too difficult, but just remember that Quagsire is only weak to Grass-type attacks and is totally immune to Electric-type attacks. It also can use Amnesia to boost its Sp. Def up a lot, so try and take it out quickly or with Physical-based attacks of it gets off too much of that.

Lapras has the potential of hitting the hardest thanks to its high Sp. Atk and the fact that it's toting Ice Beam. Water Pulse isn't as scary, but Ice Beam can hurt. It's also a bit difficult to take down thanks to its high HP, so it may take a few hits to bring it down.

Her Starmie is also quite a pain thanks to its high Speed and Sp. Atk, but it also has a nice amount of Defense, too. It can use Recover to heal and it's also holding a Sitrus Berry for additional healing, so it might also take a bit, but thankfully it's a lot less of a tank than Lapras is... unless you're using Physical-based attacks.

After beating Misty, she'll reward you with TM03, which contains Water Pulse. She'll also give you the Cascade Badge.

Get that Machine Part!

Immediately after beating Misty, make sure that you go over to the stack of red and white inner tubes to your southwest, right by the blue umbrella. Press A while facing them and you'll find the Machine Part! You must have this in order to restore power to the Power Plant, so don't miss it!

Now that you've gotten the Machine Part and your Cascade Badge, you've got one main place you need to go before you can proceed any farther — the Power Plant! But there are a few routes that you haven't explored yet that you might want to get a chance to explore.

You are free to go right ahead to the Power Plant if you'd like, but consider going south of Cerulean City onto Route 5, then go east of Saffron City into Route 8 to get back to Lavender Town. Not really because you have to, but just because you haven't explored either of those routes yet.